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More antivaxxer idiocy
why can’t they speak out against things where the damage will be limited to themselves? perhaps speaking out against seat belts?
An outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant — and it’s expected to grow.
Good job you fucking dummies.
#dummies #JennyMcCarthy #Texas #dummies #GetGovernmentOutOfMyRightToDieFromPreventableDisease #ThanksObama
A Day in the Life of the KKK
ie, a life in squalor.
Monster Truck Stroller
this is easily the most ridiculous product not conceived in a kickstarter fever dream.
Social Media Indulgences
2 frauds, better together.
Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win ‘indulgences‘ by following World Youth Day on Twitter
Media at it’s dumbest
social media is a suicide cult for journalists: by using it excessively, they hasten their descent into unemployment, also known as social media gurudom.
Trolling testimony
On the one hand, progress to let people testify over Skype. That alone could save 1000s of police hours per month in Manhattan alone. On the other hand, all the trolling looks really bad.
State Department spent $630K on Facebook ‘likes’
i can’t wait for this bubble to burst, and all the social media experts to go back to making coffee for me like they used to.
Twitter pseudoscience
this disease of mapping tweets and then inferring all sorts of nonsense from it has to stop. you start with a extraordinarily low quality dataset and then mash it with inaccurate geolocation, and you get j-school drivel.
Scientology Photoshop
thankfully for religions everywhere, photoshop is there to help with any miracles you may wish to procure.
The Washington Times reported that the Church of Scientology denies that it doctored this photo. We compared Scientology’s photo of the crowd (which it estimated at 2500) against photos taken by our correspondents (the crowd was more like 450 people) and pointed out that an entire row of shrubs had somehow been erased and there were people seemingly standing in a street that was actually empty. The church has been caught manipulating crowd shots in the past to inflate attendance at its events.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 